When I was four I wanted to be a “nurse for flowers” (ie work in a garden center) alternating with being a “liberrian.”
When I was seven I discovered archaeology and stayed fascinated for five years with both archaeology and the idea of working in a museum.
When I was twelve I found out about Jacques Cousteau and decided to become a marine biologist. I carried on with that idea all the way through college.
Then I got a job as a Plant Inspector (checking out nurseries and garden centers) for the state (so back to “nurse for flowers”).
However, then the museum bug bit me again so I went to graduate school to become a systematic terrestrial malacologist with a minor in Botany, and eventually became a science curator in a museum. The whole time I also secretly wanted to work in a book store.
Now I am a bookseller and I garden when I can, so I seem to have pretty much stayed on track since age four.